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Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic eruptions, a…

This modeling study found that the warming of near-shore surface waters would shift the range of many species toward the higher latitudes – where they would…

When permafrost thaws, microbial consumption of those carbon reserves produces carbon dioxide – much of which eventually winds up in the atmosphere, but…

Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific Ocean with dramatic global impacts on…

Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using the most modest of materials – mud. The approach, reported in the…

After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in…